Helen & Bill from Gibson Hill

Happy City, Funny Metro

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We’ve taken the metro several times. We’re impressed with how easy it is to use. We start out at People’s Square, a few blocks from the hotel, which has Lines 1, 2 and 8. Ticket machines have a touchscreen metro map, in Chinese and English, for you to indicate where you want to go and […]

Jing’an Sculpture Park

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On Saturday we were a bit tired from our lengthy walk the day before. We decided to stick close to the hotel. With no destination in mind, we started walking on Beijing Road, going west. As on Beijing Road going east, we saw many hardware shops. We started wandering down side streets, just meandering. We […]

Shanghai Brewery

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Today was a big day on two fronts – we took the Metro for the first time, and we went back to the Shanghai Brewery and had a Northstar IPA. We caught the Metro at People’s Park, which is a block or two from the hotel. It was 4 stops on the No. 1 line to […]

French Concession

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We wandered over to Hengshan Road in the French Concession yesterday, mostly because it’s home to the Shanghai Brewery. It was a long walk, through many types of neighborhoods. First past People’s Park near our hotel, then down Nanjing Road which is a big shopping district. We were confronted quite a few times by several […]

Dragon fruit for breakfast

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Today’s breakfast spread included Dragon Fruit. It was such a delight to see something so different. It’s white, mildly sweet, the consistency of melon, with black seeds that look like sesame seeds. Posted: Shanghai time, Friday, February 24, 11:00am

First day walkabout

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It feels like we are in the middle of Times Square. We decided for our first day to just walk around this area. We are quite close to the Bund along the Huangpu River, so we walked along Beijing Road towards that area. We encountered blocks and blocks lined with hardware “stores” – some were […]

The view from our room

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It was nice to wake up and get a chance to see our view. Unfortunately, it’s overcast and rainy this week, with no sign of much change, so visibility is quite low. One thing we noticed is that behind the facades on major roads, there are many smaller structures packed tight together. Later, while walking […]